Just before the Olympics started, I was given a new GPS gadget to play with, called the i-gotU GT-600 USB GPS Travel & Sports Logger. Since I was planning on doing a lot of travelling around during the games, this seemed like a perfect way to test it out. So what is it? It’s basically…
You probably knew this was coming. I bought an $8 camera mount and trusted a $400 camera on it while riding on a bumpy gravel trail. Turns out that the P6000 doesn’t have any stabilization while shooting video so I should have switched back to the much lighter Zi6 camera before pressing on with my…
I was going to call this post “It’s been One Week…” but in light of the recent issues Barenaked Ladies frontman, Steven Paige is having, I decided to go for something else instead. I’m not going to do a ‘full’ review since that’s been done to death already. I thought I’d share some of my…
We’re just over a month away from Vancouver’s 2nd installment of the Mini MakerFaire (June 23-24). Last year was the first one in Vancouver and it was a blast. I spent nearly the entire weekend browsing the booths, chatting with people and buying far too much electronics at the Solarbotics table. It was also literally…
This past weekend was the 5th year of the Northern Voice conference out at UBC…and my 3rd year attending. Thanks to a recent car accident, I didn’t take many photos but instead spent a couple of days in sessions, visiting with old friends and, as usually happens at Northern Voice, met a bunch of new…
After a last minute decision, I ended up heading to Seattle for the weekend with my girlfriend. Part of this trip was to check out the Emerald City ComiCon. Turns out I should have planned to spend a lot more time there than I had this time around as the event is massive! I only…
